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You’ve read about it in Page Six — now check out an insiders peek at our September issue cover shoot with golden girl Heidi Klum, shot by Rankin.

Click Read More to see Heidi channeling Marlene Dietrich on our Fall Fashion cover!

Have you seen our recent CITYist Fashion Editorial, Power Station? Check it out by clicking here, and read more below about the model, Yulia Terentyeva.

Photography: Tim Zaragoza

GOAL! World Cup fever rages on, and we can’t help but dress the part. Check it out by clicking here!

Photography by Phil Knott

Coming soon in CITY’s Music Issue.

It’s going to be a hot one on Thursday in NYC—so there’s no better time to dip into some of Tanteo tequila’s fresh summery cocktails. Mixologist Jason Mendenhall has designed an extensive range of refreshing drinks using each of Tanteo’s distinct spirits—Jalapeño, Tropical, and Chocolate (yes, chocolate!) tequilas. Here’s our favorite recipe, but for more ideas click here.

Watermelon Tanteador
2 oz. | Tanteo® Jalapeño Tequila
1 oz. | Watermelon Juice
1/2 oz. | Simple Syrup
1/2 oz. | Fresh Lime Juice
3 Fresh Cilantro Leaves

Combine ingredients in a shaker with ice
Shake well and strain into chilled Champagne coupe glass
Garnish with a sprig of cilantro [ . . . ]

Officially opening just yesterday to the public, Gant opens its first dedicated boutique for their youth-oriented, stylish Rugger line. The store, located at 353 Bleecker Street in the West Village, carries the full range of Rugger menswear in a cozy space that echoes Gant’s industrial New Haven manufacturing plant roots.

Check out the latest CITYists, from CITY’s April / May issue, over on our Features pages.

Check out our latest Fashion Editorials, from CITY’s April / May issue, over on our Fashion pages.

Hot on our radar later this week: David Yurman opens its much anticipated shop-in-shop at Saks Fifth Avenue, NYC, featuring couture, women’s, men’s and Timepiece Collections.

Yurman himself will be on hand at Thursday’s shopping event, which will benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. We’ll be snapping pics and chatting with the man himself!

Check out the shop when it opens Friday.

Earlier this month Pantha du Prince released Black Noise on Rough Trade Records. This album is a must for those who can appreciate collaborative tracks with LCD Soundsystem, and Noah Lennox, better known as Panda Bear of Animal Collective.

The restaurant I’ll be dashing to after long days of hopping around New York Fashion Week (especially from shows at Milk Studios, just a couple blocks away) is the recently opened Tanuki Tavern. Located in prime Meatpacking District, I’ve already become taken by its endearing decor and twist on a traditional Japanese izakaya. The easy to share-sized plates offer a little something for everyone (the kimchi fried rice was my favorite) and the prices are surprisingly diminutive. The greatest plus is that Tanuki is open until 4 a.m. Wednesday through Saturday — perfect for a late night bite after hitting the party circuit.

There is no juxtaposition of luxury brands I find more drool-inspiring, no premium collaboration more certain to reduce me instantly to a state of quivering Pavlovian lust, than this ridiculously gorgeous Leica x Hermès camera. And of course, with the Parisian house being the epitome of timeless elegance, their magic has been worked on the M7 model, the most recent of the 35mm film models, rather than one of the newer digital appareils. As CITY’s Fashion Director Allan Kennedy (an M7 owner) says, you can’t take a bad picture with one of these. The lens is a gorgeous silver-anodized 35mm f1.4 with a hood that’s unique to the Hermès models. The body and the carrying strap of the camera are of Swift calfskin, “a drummed leather with extreme suppleness,” says my release, and they come in étoupe and orange. As Jessica Simpson almost said in The Dukes of Hazzard, I don’t even know what étoupe is but I wawn it. There are 200 of these made in each color, and while my information doesn’t include the price, I would hazard a guess that fairly decent cars can be had for less. Not the point, of course; if you need to ask then like me you obviously can’t afford it. But hey, as Karl Marx said, salivating all down your shirt front, puce with class envy, is one of life’s better (free) diversions.